Do You Love Me Berry Gordy, Jr. 1962 (As Recorded by the Contours)

Do You Love Me – Berry Gordy, Jr. 1962 (as recorded by The Contours)

4/4 time

INTRO: (spoken – with tremolo chords)

[F] You broke my heart [Bb] cos I couldn’t dance

[C] You didn’t even want me around [Dm]

And now I’m [C]¯ back... to let you know I can really shake ‘em down

[C]¯[C]¯[C]¯

Do you [F] love me? (I can [Bb] really [C] move)

Do you [F] love me? (I’m [Bb] in the [C] groove)

Now do you [F] love me? ([Bb] Do you [C] love me)

[Bb] Now that [Bbm] I can [C] dance ([C] Dance… [C] dance… ) [C]¯

(tacet) Watch me now, hey!

[F] (Work, work) Ah [Bb] work it out [C] baby

[F] (Work, work) Well you’re [Bb] drivin’ me [C] crazy

[F] (Work, work) With just a [Bb] little bit of [C] soul now

[F]¯ (Work) (tap tap…tap /…tap tap …tap)

BRIDGE:

I can [F] mash potato (I can [Bb] mash po-[C]tato)

And I can [F] do the twist (I can [Bb] do the [C] twist)

Now [F] tell me baby ([Bb] Tell me [C] baby)

Do you [F] like it like this? (Do you [Bb] like it like [C] this)

[C] (shout) Tell me [C] (sung) tell me [C] (shout) tell me [C]¯ (tap tap tap)

Do you [F] love me? ([Bb] Do you [C] love me?)

Now do you [F] love me? ([Bb] Do you [C] love me?)

[Bb] Now that [Bbm] I can [C] dance ([C] Dance… [C] dance…) [C]¯

(tacet) Watch me now, hey!

[F] (Work, work) Aa-[Bb]ah shake it [C] up shake it

[F] (Work, work) Ah [Bb] shake ‘em shake ‘em [C] down

[F] (Work, work) Ah a [Bb] little bit of [C] soul now

[F]¯ (Work) (tap tap…tap /…tap tap …tap)

[F] (Work, work) Ah [Bb] work it out [C] baby

[F] (Work, work) Well you’re [Bb] drivin’ me [C] crazy

[F] (Work, work) Ah [Bb] don’t you get [C] lazy

[F]¯ (Work) tap tap…tap /…tap tap …tap)

Repeat from BRIDGE to the end of the song finishing on [F]¯ (Work)